Monday, 13 June 2011
Serbian-American author Téa Obreht has won this year's Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Obreht is the youngest-ever author to win the...

Monday, 13 June 2011
A number of Australian authors were among those recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours. In the general division of the Order of Australia, historian Graeme Davison was made officer...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
German-born Jewish author and psychoanalyst Hans Keilson has died, aged 101. He wrote The Death of the Adversary and Comedy in a Minor Key. In 2009, Keilson was honoured as...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
After two weeks at the top of the bestseller chart, the 11th Sookie Stackhouse novel Dead Reckoning (Charlain Harris, Hachette) has slipped to second place. Jamie’s 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver,...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Kate Sunners reviews All I Ever Wanted (Vikki Wakefield, Text); Jarrah Moore reviews Love, Honour and O’Brien (Jennifer Rowe, A&U); and Text Publishing editor Mandy...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Random House ebooks are now available through Australian ebookstore Booku and will soon be joined by ebooks from members of the Small Press Underground Networking Community (SPUNC). Booku managing director Clayton Wehner told...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
The Victorian Government's Young Readers Program will end this month after funding for the program was not renewed in the recent state budget. The Young Readers Program is a partnership...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
The organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair announced on Thursday 2 June that New Zealand will be the guest of honour at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair, to be held from...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Lonely Planet has confirmed that it will create up to 30 new jobs in the UK as part of the restructure of its web operations, announced last month. As previously...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
In rights news this week: Sales Nonfiction--Random House has sold Thriving (Michael Grose) to China; and Positive  Food for Kids  (Jenny O'Dea) to Russia.Children's/YA--Random House has sold Ranger's Apprentice 8: The...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
‘Typically, managers and advisors to Private Equity Funds work in partnership with the management teams of their portfolio companies to help those businesses maximise the performance of their assets and...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Apple has unveiled a 'cloud' service that allows ebooks to be shared more easily across a user's Apple devices. According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who announced the system at the...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Gruffalo creator is new UK Children's LaureateUnbound launches 'crowdsourced' publishingno progress on Google settlement...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Asialink has opened applications for its 2012 residencies. The recipients of Asialink's 2011 residencies and the projects on which they are working are: Andy Jackson, India: At the University of...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Josephine Hart, novelist and poetry ambassador, has died, aged 69. Hart's works include bestselling novel Damage (1991) and The Truth About Love (2009).

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Journalist and mystery writer Lilian Jackson Braun has died, aged 97. Braun created the popular ‘The Cat Who' mystery series. Her first book, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, was...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
The winners for this year's Sir Julius Vogel Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand, have been announced. The winning titles are:Professional AwardsBest Novel -...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Murdoch Books has announced 'a raft of key appointments', following a 'downsizing and restructure of its workforce'. The changes follow the appointment of owner Matt Handbury as CEO last week.Handbury...

Tuesday, 7 June 2011
The July issue of Bookseller+Publisher contains reviews of 29 forthcoming titles. To see which ones our reviewers liked best, see the round-up on our Fancy Goods blog here. To receive...

Monday, 6 June 2011
The shortlists for the 2011 Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) annual Book of the Year awards have been announced. This year the awards include a category for 'best book for language...

Monday, 6 June 2011
The shortlists for this year's Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children's Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:LIANZA Esther Glen Award for junior fictionThe...

Monday, 6 June 2011
The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French and Sue deGennaro (HarperCollins) has won the 2011 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature. The Wilderness Society announced the winner of this year's...